Beating the Bounds of Stourbridge Common with willow switches, remembering and re-membering the edges of the common land open to all. Bottling the Bounds commemorates the Beating the Bounds ceremony of 15 June 2025 at Stourbridge Common in Cambridge, and celebrates what makes Stourbridge Common so special.

Discover the connections of these creatures in the landscape:

I am a bee, a dog, a post box on the corner of a busy street

I am a unicorn, a dog, an owl, a kitten

I am a seed from a poppy flower, a dragon with large wings and horns

I am doing well today!

What Baltic Square tells us:

I am the stone, I am a forgotten beer can, a moss, a water droplet

I am the wind, the water, the wind, a cloud

I am forget-me-not, a weed, the grass, the little ant

I am the river, the grass, a spider, a moss 

I am the stone, a pigeon’s feather, the bridge, a seagull

I am wind, a heart shape with eyes and legs, an arugula

I am the cloud, a suitcase, a brown trout

I am the sky, the wind

I am the stone, seagull, the wind, water

I am the clouds, a sticker, the wind

I am a seagull, a wheel, a feather

I am wind, a little grass, a moss

I am the wind

I am the stone

‘We are leaves / we are nature / we are hugging a tree’

A collaborative more-than-human place-based story from the North East of England

“Here, now, feels not good / it's good / GOOD!!!”

A collaborative more-than-human place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park

“feels nice / feels familiar / quiet and loud ”

A collaborative more-than-human place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park

“I am leaves, I like to dance with the wind”

A collaborative place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park

“I started to feel cold a bit / but not that much / it’s just enough to feel I am here and now ”

A collaborative place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park

“the tree feels lucky to survive / and on their road to recovery”

A collaborative place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park

“I am the beginning, the end / I carry the scars of history ”

A collaborative place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park

A collaborative place-based story from Washington D.C., transcribed here as crafted and captured in place during the 2^nd World Forum on Urban Forests

A collaborative place-based story from Gateshead Riverside Park, transcribed here as crafted and captured in place during the Memory Studies Association 7^th Annual Conference, on Monday 03 July 2023

A collaborative place-based urban forest story from Kraków, Poland